1 Chronicles 20:1-3

Modern English Version

Rabbah Captured^(A)

20 Now at the beginning of the year when kings would go out to war, Joab led the army and devastated the land of the Ammonites. He came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. So Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it. ² Then David took the crown of their king from his head and found it weighed about a talent^[a] of gold with a precious stone set in it. And it was placed on David’s head. He also brought out a great abundance of plunder from the city. ³ He brought out the people who were it in, and put them to work with saws, sharp iron tools, and axes. Thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites, and then he and all the people returned to Jerusalem.